tricolour

• tricolor (American spelling)

An anglicisation of the French tricolore; the flag originated in France. Equivalent to tri- +‎ colour.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtrɪkələ, -lɔː/; /ˈtraɪˌkʌlə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtraɪˌkʌlɚ/

tricolour (plural tricolours) (British spelling)

1. A flag consisting of three stripes that are either vertical or horizontal, all of equal size, and each of a different colour.

   Tricolours are seen in the national flags of over twenty countries, including Belgium, France, India, Italy, Russia, The Netherlands and Ireland.

   • 2023 November 24, Rory Carroll, “‘Government is not listening’: anger over immigration spills into riot on Dublin’s streets”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Journalists too were unwelcome and photographers had to conceal cameras. “He’s with the Guardian,” a man in his 60s, holding a tricolour, shouted.

2. (uncommon) Anything which is composed of three colours.
   • 1946, Russell Humke Fitzgibbon, Flaud C. Wooton, Flaud Conaroe Wooton, Latin America: Past and Present, page 38:

     […] to the Indian red. The black, to complete the racial tricolor, was yet to come. The white population settled, as the more advanced Indian groups had, in areas having the most comfortable temperatures.

   • 2019 January 31, W. Ian Bourland, Bloodflowers: Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Photography, and the 1980s, Duke University Press, →ISBN:

     David Hammons would go one^[sic] to produce his own national colors, to subvert the boundaries of nation with his Pan-African Flag (1990), a version of the American tricolor reimagined in the black internationalist tones of red, green, and black.

tricolour (not comparable)

(British spelling)

1. Having three colours.

   tricolour film

• trichromatic
• trichrome
• tricolored

• red, white and blue (American or British flags, which have three colours but not three equal-width stripes)